I was always proud of this (from a humanity pov), yet it feels like we should have explained how humans as assholes too. It's like our thing.
When* someone finds the disc, comes to take a look, and finds a perfectly smooth planet laminated in a layer of microplastics - will they be able to appreciate our legacy or will 99% of our assholeness be lost to history??
*many decades in the future, no need to panic, space is vast
/s
Rip, Jane Goodall, may your existence goodwash humanity's reputation in space forever.
Omg, that's kinda what i thought. Nature pictures are super cool, but no picture of how we treat nature in general. No garbage island. Even back then, what defines a lot about humanity is war and treating each other like shit. I don't see a point in making us look like a perfect and great species, when we're clearly not. If anyone ever finds this, it's gonna be so far and so long, that it doesn't matter.
I agree, but I just wrote that for fun, actual alien consciousness would be just that, alien - prob not like (most of) Star Trek where species are kinda the same with suspiciously vast common grounds.
The concept of assholeness is extremely even Earth species specific.
From proper sci-fi, idk, maybe how our minorities will make decisions (in self-interest) that are not in the best interests of the species would be frowned upon ... but not eg even genocide, that's (why it's bad) is valid in our context, our situation).
For what it's worth I'm glad that stuff about our planet & ecosystems is in there/out there too, not just about some humans.
Well, that, and radio waves with shitty TV series & commercials/propaganda.
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Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 18 pts · 279d
I was always proud of this (from a humanity pov), yet it feels like we should have explained how humans as assholes too. It's like our thing.
When* someone finds the disc, comes to take a look, and finds a perfectly smooth planet laminated in a layer of microplastics - will they be able to appreciate our legacy or will 99% of our assholeness be lost to history??
*many decades in the future, no need to panic, space is vast
/s
Rip, Jane Goodall, may your existence goodwash humanity's reputation in space forever.
az04@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 279d
It's also very human to "withhold information to make a good first impression" - Lemmino
FatVegan@leminal.space · 4 pts · 279d
Omg, that's kinda what i thought. Nature pictures are super cool, but no picture of how we treat nature in general. No garbage island. Even back then, what defines a lot about humanity is war and treating each other like shit. I don't see a point in making us look like a perfect and great species, when we're clearly not. If anyone ever finds this, it's gonna be so far and so long, that it doesn't matter.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 0 pts · 279d
I agree, but I just wrote that for fun, actual alien consciousness would be just that, alien - prob not like (most of) Star Trek where species are kinda the same with suspiciously vast common grounds.
The concept of assholeness is extremely even Earth species specific.
From proper sci-fi, idk, maybe how our minorities will make decisions (in self-interest) that are not in the best interests of the species would be frowned upon ... but not eg even genocide, that's (why it's bad) is valid in our context, our situation).
For what it's worth I'm glad that stuff about our planet & ecosystems is in there/out there too, not just about some humans.
Well, that, and radio waves with shitty TV series & commercials/propaganda.
MBech@feddit.dk · 8 pts · 279d
Well put it back!
Codename_goose@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 279d
This is a fantastic project and wonderful results. I alway wondered how they did it and what all of the pictures were.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 278d
Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
Some apes, filming a group of chimpanzees
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 278d
Two breeds of ape but one has a machine
Eq0@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 279d
I thought we only send a handful of pictures! Never knew they were so many. Amazing!
wildcardology@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Shouting at stars
A history of what we sent out there.
obinice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
We sent video too, encoded on the golden record! And audio!
Unless I'm misremembering! I'm not, surely? O.o
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 278d
Only sound and pictures, video would take too much bandwidth. Also fun fact, the pictures are only 384 scanlines tall
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 278d
Yeah! I guess the great increase in volume justifies the technical complication (for the aliens) of encoding all of the pictures onto an LP
ksh@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 279d
We need a nuclear powered gif display now.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 279d
Monkey with a gun.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 278d
Terrifying thought